Korean (Spoken Korean as used in and around Seoul), Example 70
봐, 소리 때문에 애가 놀랬어!
Bwa, sori ttaemune ega nollaesseo!
bo-a
look-PLAIN
sori
sound
ttaemune
because:LOC
ai-ga
child-NOM
nollae-ss-eo
get_frightened-PST-DECL
Look how the child got frightened because of the sound!
Comment:
This is an example for the intransitive use of a form that has prescriptively been determined as the causative of an alleged intransitive form, nollada, and South Korean language polity is quite desperately trying to convince people of the incorrectness of this form (see Yi 2010).
